Daniel R. Salemi

Dan represents plans and plan sponsors across the United States in various sectors, including public, private, and nonprofit organizations, as well as multiemployer funds, employer associations, and governmental benefit plans.

As co-chair of the firm’s multiemployer plan practice, Dan has had a strong focus on the multiemployer plan area throughout his career.  In addition to serving as management-appointed counsel to multiemployer funds, Dan also represents contributing employer clients with respect to all issues related to participation in multiemployer funds, including multiemployer pension withdrawal liability and other issues related to participation in multiemployer pension and health/welfare plans. In this area of his practice, Dan represents employers in a variety of contexts, including litigation, collective bargaining, workforce restructuring, subcontracting, corporate transactions, and plant relocations and closures. He represents multiemployer funds and employers in virtually every industry, including construction, food, transportation, baking, manufacturing, hospitality, textiles, and entertainment.

Dan frequently speaks on employee benefit plan compliance issues and has presented to the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, the Worldwide Employee Benefits Network, the American Bar Association, the National Association of College and University Attorneys, and the Illinois Association of School Boards, among others.

Additionally, Dan has authored articles published in Benefits Magazine, Bloomberg BNA, Benefits & Compensation Digest, NACUANOTES, Employee Benefit Plan Review, and The Corporate Executive.

• Advises large employers and multiemployer retirement plans on the design, funding, ongoing administration, and termination of retirement plans of all types (including defined benefit pension, cash balance, profit sharing, 401(k), 403(b), and 457 plans)
• Advises large employers and multiemployer health and welfare plans on compliance with all applicable federal and state laws, including the Affordable Care Act, HIPAA, COBRA, the Internal Revenue Code, and ERISA
• Represents contributing employers to multiemployer pension plans with respect to pension withdrawal liability and other considerations related to participation in and withdrawal from these plans
• Represents contributing employers to multiemployer health and welfare plans with respect to their participation in these plans
• Represents employers and multiemployer plans in the private and public sectors on the design and funding of retiree health arrangements
• Represents employers, multiemployer plans, and other plan sponsors in plan correction matters, plan audits, and other issues involving the US Department of Labor, Internal Revenue Service, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation